Q.E.D. is faster than me. I’m sorry for you if you cannot disagree with gentlemen that traffic in Meth, tamper with witnesses, have gun and drug violations AND murder their own members. I’ll bet they’re real nice.
Thanks for fighting my ignorance. :smack:
it’s official…you lack a sense of humor too. see…one does not talk bad about bandidos, because they tend to take offense…it was joke, dumbass…
Oh, of course. I get jokes.
See above…if you are around a bunch of Bandidos, you show them respect and dont talk bad about them…that is another kind of motorcycle safety entirely.
I guess people who havent grown up around them wouldn’t pick up on that.
Apparently not. At least not that one.
Pssst… that’s a Homer Simpson quote. Now you’re even. 
You’ve lost me, the reason that I’m supposed to show respect and not talk bad is…
Oh, right! The threat of physical violence! I guess I’m supposed to respect and not talk bad about Islamic terrorists. Believe me, I have a lot more to fear from your Bandido buddies than Bin Laden right now; I’ll bet you are proud to be an American.
Fuck you and the company you keep. If you’re a 1% biker, you’re either a pathetic wannabe or an actual criminal, either way, fuck you and your fucked up world view. I hope you end up in a cage getting corn holed by truly evil men.
You don’t think that’s juuuuust a tad over the top? :dubious:
Doh
If you’re in a town with a few hundred if them running around…yeah…pretty much.
i don’t have any bandido friends…or enemys, and I plan to keep it that way on both counts.
Me? i’m not a 1%er, nor do I agree with their world view. See, i was making a joke up there…about not saying bad things about big violent people who outnumber you…geez, lighten up.
I knew we could find common ground on SOMETHING…
If chaco’s having to deal with them in his town, and if they’re as bad as they appear to be, then a little over-the-top-ness wouldn’t go awry, I think. That’s a nervous situation.
In all seriousness…
Generally, from my personal experiance, if you don’t get involved in their business or say something stupid to them then you are generally ok. it’s not like the old bikers take over the town b movies…
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Idle points.
Safety:
A BIL is a big wheel in insurance. I had him do a check. The highest risk for insurance companies is 18-35 year olds on sport bikes. Lowest - Goldwings + elderly, then ‘all others’. <— approximations.
The biggest cause of motorcycle deaths (US) is cars pulling out in front of or turning in front of motorcycles.
I live next to a State Park in AR. Great ridding area. Got a gazzilion (approximate) bikers through here any time the weather is not miserable. The only individual riders I ever hear at distance is the lone sport bike exceeding the speed of sound. I never hear Goldwings even in groups of 50. Groups of sport bikes with riders under 25 can not go through the park less that 2X the speed limits. Even if they have to pass cars on blind hills. (Only very slight exaggeration) Twice a year I will hear a solo cruiser with PIPES at distance. (More non-Harley cruisers on the road than Harleys now and over 50% have nasty pipes on their wing ding ding buzz engines… snerk
At distance, the same size groups of sport riders are 3X as fast and 2X as noticeable as groups of HD wanna bees bad boys. Just a higher pitch and carries better. Big group of cruisers at a distance sounds pretty good IMO. They just have to get closer to hear them. At legal speeds in the park, the HD riders get waved at and the sport riders get the one finger salute. They are not liked by experienced campers in state parks cause they are very dangerous to little kids and people walking along.
I have a 77 KZ 1000 and two homebuilt. 1200 cc and about 1800 cc.
I want to hear what – No, I want a video of chaco going out and being as ‘get in your face ballsy’ with those noisy bikers as he is with us in here.
I wonder why the people who get so upset with people on motorcycles don’t get out and do something about it? I stop police officers and report bad driving of all kinds, I use my cell phone to do the same, I’m a real asshat about stupid and inattentive people driving dangerous things that can get to me and hurt me through no fault of my own. I earned this ‘tude’ with my SS arm bone prostheses and loss of my lively hood and 90% of the strength and usefulness of my right arm. I’m right handed. The police report specifically stated that I was no no way responsible for any part of the accident that took me out. I almost got away from her but she gunned it at the last moment and got me. I have ridden a mile or three and the only other bikes to cause me trouble were sport bikes that were trying to harass me. Never had a 1% or cruiser bike act that way around me.
I can ride an HD with straight pipes and not bust the DB meters. I know lots of HD guys that do that very thing. Most have performance pipes that are not really ‘straight’ pipes. I see hundreds of bikes a week up here, sometimes thousands and the number of asshats is very small really. So, I wonder where all the 99% of cruiser riders with loud pipes that rack them off at 2 am and at every corner and every one that ends up beside your car, (what are you doing in a car anyway?) at 1out of 2 stoplights and all the HD dealers that you all live by… Could there be some stretch in these frames ya think?
I have been glared at because of my sound and I have had it help. Nothing helps with 82 year old little ladies that should not have driver licenses.
We had a group of BMW riders camping a month ago or so. Not a one complained or criticized any of the bikes I rode up on (KZ & chopper) when I went to visit just cause. Of course not a one of them was on a ‘sport’ bike in full out racing gear and ear plugs either. Dangerous and stupid bunch that BMW group. You’d think they would be better than that, more like you guys in here.
As someone who lived in Milwaukee (on a main road to boot) for the 95th, 100th and soon to be 105th Harley Davidson Anniversary, I can tell you that no, they do not go to bed early. Though the noise does become more of a dull hum after around 3:00am.
:rolleyes:
He’s angry (and justifiably,) not stupid.
I don’t think so. I ride trackdays all year round and no way would I do that without full leathers and with the weather we have here, ventilated leather is just fine for the street too, even in the middle of summer we don’t often see more than 30c.
That post made…no sense at all, GunsNSpot. If you had a point somewhere in there, it’s lost like a lead brick in quicksand.
Cocky idiots on sports bikes are just as much assholes as people who purposely buy loud pipes and rev their throttle every chance they get. Nobody in this thread has even come close to making a blanket statement that cruiser riders are assholes. I ride a Kawasaki Vulcan myself. I just don’t have any inclination to put aftermarket pipes on them.
What’s your point?
ETA: Oh yeah, and anecdotally? About 9 in 10 sports bike riders I see on the road have at least a helmet on. Maybe 1 in 10 cruiser riders wear anything more than tattered jeans and wifebeaters. I’m exaggerating, but I seriously feel out of place wearing a helmet and jacket on my cruiser. It’s rare that I see anyone make any kind of nod toward safety. You wanna know why there’s so many motorcycle deaths? Because people don’t give a shit about things like that.
Not true. I am merely relating an incident in my experience. I do not agree that the super loud bikes should be allowed. I think there should be limits. Some of the bikes are ridiculously loud and should be ticketed. Some idiots make their bikes so loud they wake up the whole neighborhood. that should be stopped.